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Saying you have an eclectic taste in music.

I was tempted to have friends round to the garden last night for drinks and BBQ. Getting fucking sick of adhering to isolation and seeing everyone else on my newsfeed just swan off doing whatever they want. But I stopped myself. Mainly because I don't have any friends.

Well tough. It's Dave's site.

Who are the other two?

Nice.

Snowed in for a few days, nothing more. As for the rest, I'll respectfully pull a Major Tom here. At least a fortnight late doing anything and even then only started due to public pressure and organisations, companies, and individuals taking action independent of the government. Sham of a lockdown that was/is deliberately vague so no-one has a fucking clue what they're allowed to do. Only contracting stuff from their donors/mates, knowing full well most of it would never get here or even get made. Then reopening the country when every scientist that isn't being paid off is saying it's a fucking dangerous idea. Nah, they don't fucking care. They're quite happy loads have died, better for the economy.

Imagine no statistics

Cant remember the stats but there's a huge proportion of ethnic minorities in prison in the states who have never been convicted by a court, they've taken a plea bargain. The insinuation often seems to be that "this could go to court, you're black, the judge/jury mostly aren't, you could risk 20 years for something you didn't do or take five in a plea". Scousers of all people in england should know what it feels like to be pre/overly judged.

Buoyed by the success of my previous haiku, I have ventured further into blistering commentary on current affairs. Last night, a mate said his 14 year old nephew was writing Maddie McCann poems. I set myself two minutes max to write a Maddie-themed haiku. No more than 120 seconds later, this important piece of culture had been published. On What’s App. ‘Patatas bravas’ Fuck, tapas again Dad always comes back early Hope mum checks the boot (5-7-5)

90 years young today. The cheese may well have slipped off his sandwich a few years ago but the man remains one of my all time heroes. Happy birthday Mr Eastwood sir.

Blow me fuckface. Go to hell. I'm sick of you.

My oldest son was born 3 months after we last became champions. I’ve spent umpteen times with him talking about what it feels like to finish top and hopefully he’ll get to feel it himself this year. No amount of asterisks, Covid 19 quoting, integrity doubting hateful cunts are going to make a blind bit of difference to how he is going to react when the time finally comes and we will share a beer or three looking back at a truly awesome side’s league campaign. There’ll be no doubts, what ifs or maybes but simply joy at ending the 30 year wait. I lost someone very close to me due to this virus but the last thing that they would want is for me to not take time to enjoy the moment. I will, immensely, with my son.

I got this off a blue today. Not a bitter blue. A decent bloke and a mate of mine. It made me laugh.

The only thing we have in common with Blue noses is that we are both obsessed with Liverpool Football Club.

Pickles and mussels. Pancakes with wine. Pints and pudding. Porridge with swine. Seagulls cross the ocean. Poetry in motion. The end.

anton66 has hair like Lisa Stansfield and washes his balls in the kitchen sink.

Horse racing is back from tomorrow. Loads of other sports given the go ahead and shielding has been abandoned. It appears we’ve made it to level one. That was easier than expected. No transmission of the virus. It’s gone!

No, they haven't. Mind you "fucked it up" implies that the Tory government were desperate to save lives but simply made bad decisions. Which hasn't been the case. They wanted to follow a "herd immunity" plan (geronticide) and every single action or inaction for the last few months has pointed towards just that.

Anyone who listens to Radio One.

Labour every time would rather shit in my hand and smear myself with it than vote for the tory bastards. I think the way this last shower of twats have treated the NHS and the country in general bears me out .

Monster Raving Looney for years but after the Lord passed I started wasting my vote.

Witty is not to be trusted imo. Knowing someone who knows him in a work capacity, let's just say he's not as averse to politics / politically motivated choices as he likes to make out. I don't know if the same can be said of Vallance.

And as if by magic...

Racism aside, the US has a big problem with how it is policing it's citizens. There is a lengthy and rather detailed expose in Malcolm Gladwell's last book of what approaches, techniques and procedures they use, how it evolved and why and how this complicates matters.

Hope not, because

Yes, couldn't believe how graphic it was, the last 5 minutes of the video look like a report from a war zone. The couple of documentaries I've seen don't show that level of carnage. Cringeworthy Munich flag on display as well.

The Nice Guys Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling absolutely superb. Read up on it and Crowe had said he’d have loved to make a sequel to it but they released it at the same time as Cap America Civil War came out and it bombed at the box office so couldn’t get the nod. 8.5 / 10 loss of 0.5 points for Kim Basinger acting as if she’d just been reanimated which took me out of the film whenever she was on screen.

The changes in rules are weird. It's like Boris has been negotiating with the virus. Virus: "Okay we will allow 6 people to gather together, 2 metres apart but you can't force them too wear masks in return you will give us your elderly your most vulnerable the people least economically profitable"

I have voted Labour in every possible election (local council, Westminster, Europe) since I turned 18 in 1989; I’ve never missed an election and have always voted in person. I love the feeling of actually completing my ballot paper and putting it in the box. It still feels like a significant act to me even in these days of a crumbling sense of the relevance of actual democracy in favour of the social media gobshite version where people think that venting online has meaning beyond personal catharsis. I’ve also been a Labour Party member on and off for twenty years. While I once did a very tiny and insignificant bit of campaigning, I am pretty far removed from the description “activist”. I am a member primarily to have voting rights within the party and to help fund its activities.

For me its the Captain

You're not wrong at all. However, I think Paul is right. There are no saints. Ali is a guy who was a public figure the second he won his gold medal at 18 years old. He was working through how he thought about oppression, racism and tyranny, and doing all of these things in a public sphere. It's entirely predictable that he would have said stuff that he regrets while doing so. And he did regret it. He has repeatedly walked back the black supremacist nation of Islam ideology generally and his comments to Joe specifically. Given how he went about his life in his last 30 years, arguing against Apartheid and for Palestinian independence, I take him at his word.

They had a field day yesterday, the whinging cunts. It's hilarious how some Juventus fans, even those bereaved, have moved on from Heysel (or appear to have done so) much quicker than Evertonians have. They genuinely do think that they were the real victims of it all. But, still sing their Manc songs. They're so disingenuous about it all too. Let's be clear. They don't give a single fuck about any of the people who sadly lost their lives on that day. It's simply something they can hijack and use to try and score points. I saw somebody refer to them as "grief thieves" the other day and it's a spot on description. Plus, they constantly claim that Heysel never gets talked about. Of course it does. You cunts never shut the fuck up about it. And, they accuse Liverpool fans of never wanting to discuss it. That's simply a lie. I'll happily discuss it. Loads of Reds would. But not in the limited way that the bloooooos want to discuss it: inane "murderers" and "never your fault" shouts. I'd happily discuss the context of it all. Including the crumbling stadium, the poor segregation, the relevance of Rome 1984 to the whole situation, that it was a fight between two sets of "fans" that ended up with innocent people bring caught up in it all, that it was a disaster that was likely to happen elsewhere if not at Heysel given the hooligan problem that pervaded the entire sport at that time. And, obviously, the culpability of some of our "fans" for what happened, but noting that it can't be ignored that their conduct was no different than a multitude of English fans in the 70s and 80s, with it, sadly, just being the consequences of that conduct that separated Heysel from other acts of English hooliganism. But, they don't want that. Any attempt at discussion will inevitably be drowned out by that inane "never your fault" shout. The truth of the matter is that, if anything, it's Evertonians and other rival fans who don't want to discuss Heysel, unless it's on their basic, rather juvenile terms.

Yeah proper inconsiderate of the police for murdering a black man during this crisis.

I’m sure it’s not going to impact your day too much but this made me laugh. Very good.

Bit late for that

Sinn Fein

As long as we get two games played, or however many we need to win it, I don't give a fuck how they decide to relagate Villa, or some other shite. I'm thinking Curtis & a few others will feature quite a lot after we get those points.

Breast milk for me.

Hey, if Domenic Cummings can go castle watching I can easily pop over, get it, pop back and slip under any quarantine rules and then proudly dispay my treasure along side my favourite seal club. Of course, when I die I shall leave it to the National Portrait Gallery. All I ask is that 'The Rock' face the Canadian Embassy.

Back in the 90s, I saw When We Were Kings, a documentary about The Rumble in the Jungle, at the pictures. From memory, it was very good.